Blue Brigade

Japanese: 青い旅団 - あおいりょだん
Blue Brigade

…In the field of diplomacy, a meeting between Franco and Hitler was held in the town of Hendaye on the border with France, where they agreed on two points: first, Spain's neutral policy in World War II, and second, that Spain would maintain friendly relations with the Axis powers but would not cooperate in the war (although doubts have recently been cast over the second point). However, in 1941, Franco sent the "Blue Brigade" (a total of about 50,000 men, said to have been so named because the soldiers wore the blue uniforms of the Falange, which played a part in the Franco regime) to the Russian front. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Blue Brigade" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…外交分野では,フランスとの国境の町アンダイで,フランコとヒトラーの会談が行われ,第1に第2次世界大戦におけるスペインの中立政策,第2に枢軸国と友好関係を保ちつつも,戦争協力はしないことが取り決められた(しかし,最近,第2の点には疑念が出ている)。ところが41年,フランコはロシア戦線へ〈青い旅団〉(計約5万人。フランコ体制の一翼を担ったファランヘ党の青色の制服を兵士が着用したため,こう呼ばれたといわれる)を派遣した。…

※「青い旅団」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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